50 free SZA trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
42 free SZA trivia questions with answers. SZA went from self-released EPs on Tumblr to the first woman with 100 weeks in the Billboard 200 top ten, and this quiz follows the whole arc. Forty-two questions cover Solana Rowe's childhood in Maplewood, New Jersey, the Wu-Tang-inspired stage name, signing to Top Dawg Entertainment, the long-delayed debut Ctrl, the five-year wait for SOS, the Lana reissue, the hits Kill Bill, Snooze, Good Days and Luther, the Grammys she lost and won, and her partnership with Kendrick Lamar from Babylon to the Grand National Tour. Easy questions ask which film franchise Kill Bill is named after and who she duetted with on Kiss Me More; the hard ones want the album's original title, the college major she abandoned, whose voice is sampled as Granny and the princess referenced on the SOS cover. Made for fans who know their Ctrl deep cuts, and workable for anyone who has had SOS on repeat. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on SZA, her albums and singles, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01What is SZA's real first name?
Solána
Her full name is Solána Imani Rowe, and her mother nicknamed her 'Chickabee' after the 1994 film Nell.
Q 02SZA was born in St. Louis but grew up in which New Jersey town?
Maplewood
Her mother was an AT&T executive and her father a CNN video producer, both originally from the South.
Q 03SZA's stage name was inspired by the Supreme Alphabet and which two rappers?
RZA and GZA
The Z and A stand for Zig-Zag and Allah, and the S can mean savior or sovereign.
Q 04SZA wore a hijab in elementary and early middle school but stopped after which event, fearing bullying?
The September 11 attacks
Her father is Muslim and her mother Christian; she attended both Sunday school and Muslim school.
Q 05What did SZA study at Delaware State University before dropping out in her final semester?
Marine biology
She had enrolled at three different colleges before settling there, then worked bar and other jobs to fund her music.
Q 06Which record label signed SZA in July 2013, making her its first female artist?
Top Dawg Entertainment
She first met the label's people at CMJ in 2011 when her boyfriend's clothing company sponsored a Kendrick Lamar show.
Q 07What was the title of SZA's self-released debut EP from October 2012?
See.SZA.Run
The Guardian compared it to Drake and the Weeknd; her second EP, simply titled S, followed six months later.
Q 08Which SZA EP, released in April 2014, was led by the single 'Babylon' featuring Kendrick Lamar?
Z
It debuted at number 39 on the Billboard 200 on 6,980 copies and grew a cult following on Tumblr.
Q 09Which rapper delivered a guest verse on the remix of SZA's 2013 song 'Teen Spirit'?
50 Cent
She had tagged the SoundCloud upload 'Glitter Trap' and 'Not R&B', an early sign of her genre allergy.
Q 10Which Rihanna song did SZA co-write and feature on, having planned it as the centrepiece of her own album?
Consideration
It was going to be called 'LouAnne Johnson' on her record and even had a video shot before the label handed it to Anti.
Q 11SZA co-wrote 'Feeling Myself', a 2014 collaboration between Beyoncé and which rapper?
Nicki Minaj
She has called Beyoncé 'the most inspirational woman on earth, next to my mother'.
Q 12What was SZA's debut album originally going to be titled before it became Ctrl?
A
It was meant to complete a trilogy of one-letter EPs that started with S and Z.
Q 13In what year was Ctrl finally released?
2017
Delays had grown so frustrating that she tweeted she wanted to quit music, then took it back.
Q 14Which Ctrl single is named after an actress SZA says she rarely saw people like herself in?
Q 21Which December 2020 single, the lead single from SOS, gave SZA her first solo top ten in the US?
Good Days
'Hit Different' had come three months earlier as a standalone; 'I Hate U' and 'Shirt' followed after going viral on TikTok.
Q 22'I Hate U' was first uploaded to SoundCloud alongside 'Nightbird' and 'Joni' on whose advice?
Her astrologer
'Joni' would not get an official release until the Lana reissue in 2025, two years after it leaked.
Q 23The SOS teaser video hinted at the album's title by playing what?
Its Morse code
The teaser was soundtracked by 'PSA', which stayed unreleased until the Lana rerelease.
Drew Barrymore
She also named 'Jodie' after Jodie Foster and 'Go Gina' after Tisha Campbell's character on Martin.
Q 15Which Ctrl single features Travis Scott?
Love Galore
The 2022 deluxe edition added a version without his verse, along with six other outtakes.
Q 16Where did Ctrl debut on the Billboard 200?
Number three
It sold 60,000 first-week units and went on to chart for more than eight consecutive years.
Q 17How many Grammy nominations did SZA receive for Ctrl in 2018, making her that year's most-nominated woman?
Five
Best New Artist was among them, and she went home with nothing.
Q 18'All the Stars', SZA's 2018 duet with Kendrick Lamar, led the soundtrack of which film?
Black Panther
It earned Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for Best Original Song and four Grammy nods including Record of the Year.
Q 19SZA's first Billboard Hot 100 top ten came as a featured artist on 'What Lovers Do' by which band?
Maroon 5
It peaked at number nine in 2017, months before 'All the Stars' reached number seven.
Q 20'Kiss Me More', which won SZA her first Grammy, was a collaboration with which artist?
Doja Cat
Its chorus interpolates Olivia Newton-John's 'Physical', so Steve Kipner and Terry Shaddick got writing credits too.
Q 24The SOS album cover, with SZA seated on a diving board over the sea, references a 1997 photo of whom?
Diana, Princess of Wales
The original was taken aboard a yacht off Portofino, Italy, in the last summer of the princess's life.
Q 25What chart record did SOS set when it returned to the top of the Billboard 200 in 2025?
Longest gap between weeks on top
Its previous week on top had been in early 2023; a week after the Grand National Tour opened it went back to number one for a thirteenth week.
Q 26SOS broke which two albums' records for the longest-running US top ten by a woman and by a Black artist?
Adele's 21 and Michael Jackson's Thriller
In August 2025 it became the first album by a woman to log 100 weeks in the Billboard 200 top ten.
Q 27A remix with which rapper pushed 'Kill Bill' from number two to number one on the Hot 100?
Doja Cat
On Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs it ran 21 weeks at number one, beating the record set by 'Old Town Road'.
Q 28Which actress from the original Kill Bill films appears in SZA's 'Kill Bill' music video?
Vivica A. Fox
Christian Breslauer's video restages several scenes from the films with SZA in the Bride's role.
Q 29'Kill Bill' was the third best-selling song in the world in which year?
2023
It racked up 1.84 billion units from streams and downloads, and SZA has said she hates most of her biggest, easiest songs.
Q 30Which SOS single won Best R&B Song at the 2024 Grammys, where SZA was the most-nominated artist?
Snooze
SOS took Best Progressive R&B Album the same night, and an acoustic version of the winning song features Justin Bieber.